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in are really amazed.” Stewart agreed with Cole on the interest that has been generated since the exhibit opened on Feb. 1. “I’ve ended up having to hold off on selling pieces in the exhibit because I figured that the people who come to the artist’s reception (5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12) should at least get the chance to see the pictures before they are gone,” Stewart said. Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share Article Link Subscribe Subscribe to our Newspaper for latest updates: Subscribe To Our Newspaper …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor - March 1, 2016 02.29.2016 Dean Rhodes Letters Dear honorable General Council: Recently the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde lead a crusade to reverse a ruling made in 2012 by the Oregon State Board of Education to eliminate all Native mascots used by public high schools in the state of Oregon. This amounted to 14 of the 503 public high schools. Native American Tribes across the nation have been fighting against the use of these Native-imaged …

Veterans Special Event Board Chairman Steve Bobb Sr. said the Honor Guard then traveled to Willamina Cemetery, Buck Hollow Cemetery and finished the morning at the Sheridan Cemetery. Bobb, who was master of ceremonies at the Grand Ronde ceremony, welcomed everyone to the memorial event at 1 p.m. following a meal served in the Tribal Community Center that started at noon. The standing-room–only meal was prepared by cooks Kevin Campbell and Charles Nuejahr, and Tribal Council Administrative …

.” Currently, the Clothes Closet is open two days a week – Monday and Friday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Walker-Hernandez has Fridays and Daniele Powley, a volunteer since last September, has Mondays. For a long time, the Clothes Closet was open only one day a week. “It’s a nice place to work,” says Walker-Hernandez. “It is not like you’re stressed. If you’re sick, you trade days." Volunteers keep up with what the community needs, and not just in clothes. Powley was “kind of shy,” she says, the first …

Tribal Government & News Message from the Chair -- Dec. 1, 2015 11.30.2015 Dean Rhodes Tribal Council Fellow members: I hope this update finds you well and I hope you and your family members are enjoying the holidays. Over the last several months, Tribal Council members and staff have been meeting to discuss the 2016 budget and to work on a number of important issues that are important to the Tribe and our Tribal members. Willamina Creek Fire On Aug. 19, the Tribe learned that a fire had …

Tribal Government & News Feds brief Tribes on marijuana legalization 03.31.2015 Dean Rhodes Federal Government , State Government , Public Safety By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor Oregon Tribes are preparing for murky legal waters that will begin on July 1 when Oregon’s Measure 91 goes into effect, allowing residents 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of homegrown marijuana in public, eight ounces at home and grow up to four plants out of public view. While it may become legal in Oregon …

Manager Kathy Cole. Greg Archuleta, Travis Mercier, Reina Nelson, Bradley Leno and Gabe Edwards also staffed the booth. Grand Entry started promptly at 1 p.m. led by Raymond Cree, a World War II veteran from the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, and Bill DePoe from the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, both with eagle staffs. Right behind, also with eagle staffs, were Grand Ronde Tribal Elder Alton Butler, Cow Creek Elder Robert Van Norman, Coquille Elder Jack Lenox …

Tribal Government & News Letters to the Editor -- April 1, 2013 03.29.2013 Ron Karten Letters Dear Mr. Chairman and Tribal Council members: Thank you for all you do to manage our Tribal affairs and the fine work done to help the members of our Tribe have a better and more enjoyable life. Since the humble beginnings after Restoration to our current state of affairs, we have all been blessed in so many ways. I am proud to say that possibly some seeds planted in the mid-1980s during our Tribal …

, 1977; Cow Creek, 1982; Grand Ronde, 1983; Coos, 1984; and Coquille, 1989. Members of the four other Oregon Tribes - Klamath, Umatilla, Burns Paiute and Warm Springs -- followed. Twenty-one drums spread out in front and beside the stage at the Salem Pavilion on the State Fairgrounds where the event has been held since 2009. Master of ceremonies Nick Sixkiller (Cherokee) of Eugene announced them as they played. Among the drums were The Woodsmen that accompanied the 1 p.m. Grand Entry. The eight …

packets were mailed in late December and started arriving in Tribal members’ mail soon thereafter. Tribal members will have until Friday, Jan. 25, to register to vote in the election and ballots are scheduled to be mailed on Friday, Feb. 1. Two-thirds of those who vote will have to approve for the split-siblings amendment to pass. In addition, 30 percent of those who register to vote must cast a ballot for the election to count. In the last three constitutional amendment elections held in 2016, 2015 …